chaosman12
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It's alive! This is a big project and your project management has been quite impressive.
As you know, the overhead door will be your most persistent & greedy thermal thief. My wife and I recently moved from CT 'back to' Georgia after about 35 years in the cold. Very happy to be here, but Brother, I miss my basement and detached, hi-posted oversized garage/Shop!"Pole Barn" was how this format started, but post-frame is more accurate about how the actual structure is made from an engineering standpoint. Today's buildings can also much nicer than old-time pole barns...even the "poles" are laminated posts that are really straight and true so you don't have to have magic powers to get a straight and square structure.
We fortunately do not have termite issues here at this property, but adequate treatment is already part of the plan.
I had a mini split at the old property/shop and will also have one in the new building. I need both heat and cooling and mini splits are uber-efficient, especially in a well insulated space. Hopefully the latter will come from closed cell spray foam, but I'm not yet at the point of getting quotes. Alternative insulation methods have less expensive materials but I'd have to put in a full ceiling Which is costly given it would either require adding structure to support something like drywall or need to be done with metal. In both cases, thats $2.5-3K of cost which could be flipped to the very efficient spray foam as an envelope. Decisions....decisions...![]()
I'm happy to say that other than a few minor touch-ups, the painting is now complete. (Oh, ok...other than those touchups and the future window/door boxes, etc.) It's amazing how quickly one can move through an open room like this with an airless sprayer for sure and I'm happy with the end result. I actually didn't need to use a brush/roller up around the overhead door as the gun had pretty darn good control. My "practice" with the PVA primer yesterday also sped things up as well as increased the quality of the finish with the colored pain. This is a very light grey (called "Elemental" in the PPG chart) and keeps things bright without being glarding like "white" and also is much better for photography than "white" would be.![]()
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I managed to get most of the cleanup taken care of before ending my day...and it's nice that the trash goes out tomorrow for Wednesday pickup.Next steps are to do the final terminations on the electrical and start work on the various sound mitigation things I have planned in my head.![]()
True, which is why it's an insulated door from the factory. That said, I wish it also had a thermal break..."hindsight is golden".As you know, the overhead door will be your most persistent & greedy thermal thief.
No disagreement in principle. Making a few guitars is just a small part of my greater woodworking endeavors and I need the space to actually use the machinery I own...it's all been stuffed into the "garage" for a year and a half since we moved and that got worse when my new sliding table saw arrived three months early from Italy. When I'm moved in, there will be space for all phases of work I do for machining, hand-work, assembly, finishing and material storage without these functions stepping on others.Not about the 'Shed', it's the head, the tools and the hands... That makes a 'Luthier'...
Thanks, I appreciate that! While a lot of the initial stuff I do/build in the new building will still be related to "setting up a new shop", you know I gotta do some other things and hopefully, one of them will be instrument related simply because I enjoy it.Looking nice and looking more forward to you doing another guitar project!
It was specifically to maximize space.Any specific reason for elevating your compressor besides maximizing space?
LOL. Probably would work for munchkins, but the space isn't that big. Only 24x36x10